Fresco, Empuries Museum, Empuries, Catalonia, Spain
Winged figure on candelabrum, Roman fresco fragment, detail, 41-54 AD, from a room west of the Forum in Empuries, in the Empuries Museum, or Museo de Arqueologia de Cataluna - Empuries (MAC), near Figueres, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. The fresco depicts a male figure with a syrinx suspended above, and abstracted floral patterns in the borders. Empuries is an ancient settlement founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea. The town was settled by the Romans from 218 BC and abandoned in the Middle Ages. The site has been undergoing excavation since 1908. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14117020
Media ID
45939307
Size
7087px x 4725px
(12.9MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
